941 private quotes tagged marriage

“Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.” — Nicolas Chamfort

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“Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.” — William O. Douglas

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“No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages.” — Judy Biggert

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“In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.” — Colin Powell

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“It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'” — Garrett Hedlund

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“You know what's funny? I don't ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises - I don't see that happening to me.” — Harry Connick, Jr.

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“I'm more afraid of marriage than death.” — Shakira

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“I'm the only man in the world with a marriage licence made out to whom it may concern.” — Mickey Rooney

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“Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.” — Dennis Miller

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“Marriage has just never interested me.” — Jacqueline Bisset

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“I like marriage. The idea.” — Toni Morrison

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“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.” — Gloria Steinem

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“In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.” — Rita Rudner

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“Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.” — Bette Davis

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“I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde.” — Hugh Hefner

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“Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.” — Henny Youngman

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“My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.” — Kyle Chandler

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“Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.” — Jane Harrison

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“I highly suggest marriage to all my friends who are dating.” — Jerry O'Connell

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“Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!” — William Hazlitt

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“My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.” — Larry Elder

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“The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.” — Peter De Vries

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“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.” — Jeanette Winterson

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“Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.” — Sam Ewing

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